Brace yourself: we now have the hypercar’s official stats. 0-124mph in 6.8 seconds, anyone?

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Brace
yourselves people, for McLaren has announced the performance figures for the
P1. The numbers are alarmingly… small. And also quite big – the claimed
combined fuel figure, for instance, is 34.0mpg.

But that’s
not the one you’re really after is it? Here’s what you need to know. We’ll be
back once you’ve had time to digest them.

0-62mph: 2.8secs

0-124mph: 6.8secs

0-186mph: 16.5secs

Standing
quarter: 9.8secs at 152mph

There, that
ought to do it. McLaren has laid down the gauntlet to LaFerrari, and trounced the
Porsche 918 (2.8 and 7.9 are the comparative times for the 0-62 and 124mph
figures). It’s clearly as fast as we’d hoped, and then some. But then it does
have 903bhp and 664lb ft of torque pushing along just 1,395kg, making for a
pretty punchy power to weight ratio of 647bhp/tonne.

Of course,
the question everyone will want answered is: does this consign the Veyron Super
Sport to the supercar graveyard? No, not quite. Both have almost identical
power to weight ratios (644bhp/tonne for the ultimate Veyron), but against the
clock the Veyron (aided, don’t forget by 4wd) is claimed to do 0-62mph in 2.5
secs, 124mph in 6.7secs and 186mph in 14.6secs. Standing quarter? 9.7secs. And
of course, as it isn’t limited to 217mph, goes on to top 268mph.

But still, we
weren’t sure we’d ever see the Veyron matched, and now it has been. And by a
hybrid at that, which also returns 194g/km of CO2 and is therefore cleaner than
an Audi TT RS or a Lotus Evora. Our minds are blown. And being so much lighter,
you’ve got to expect that the P1 will feel more visceral, less blunt
instrument.

And it’s not
just the going, but the stopping of the McLaren, too. Braking from 186mph takes
just 6.2 seconds, during which you’ll cover 246 metres. At more sane speeds,
you’ll stop from 60mph in 30.2 metres. The highway code suggests the typical
braking distance is 55 metres.

About the
only figure McLaren hasn’t given us is the lateral g. Given the size of that
rear wing, we’d expect it to pull several. So, there you are. Digest and then
post your comments below…